Groups of animals and how to tell them apart, sentence 11
Amphibians have smooth, moist skin and usually lay their eggs in water.
Who acts: Amphibians · What happens: have, lay · To what, where: smooth moist skin, eggs, water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amphibians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amphibians | amphibian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skin | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 smooth | punct |
| 5 | moist | moist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skin | amod |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 lay | advmod |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lay | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Amphibians | smooth moist skin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | Amphibians not said here | amphibians's eggs | water | usually property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in water=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:024-animal-groups.lesson:11.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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